[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 75 (Tuesday, May 7, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S2677]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                             CLOTURE MOTION

  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cassidy). Under the previous order and 
pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair lays before the Senate the pending 
cloture motion, which the clerk will state.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

                             Cloture Motion

       We, the undersigned Senators, in accordance with the 
     provisions of rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, 
     do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination 
     of Kimberly A. Reed, of West Virginia, to be President of the 
     Export-Import Bank of the United States for a term expiring 
     January 20, 2021.
         Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Kevin Cramer, Mike 
           Rounds, Roy Blunt, Richard Burr, Johnny Isakson, Mike 
           Crapo, Tim Scott, Jerry Moran, John Hoeven, Pat 
           Roberts, Lisa Murkowski, Roger F. Wicker, Lamar 
           Alexander, Rob Portman.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum 
call has been waived.
  The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on the 
nomination of Kimberly A. Reed, of West Virginia, to be President of 
the Export-Import Bank of the United States for a term expiring January 
20, 2021, shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski).
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 82, nays 17, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 96 Ex.]

                                YEAS--82

     Alexander
     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Boozman
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Gardner
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Harris
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Isakson
     Johnson
     Jones
     Kaine
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Manchin
     Markey
     McConnell
     McSally
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Moran
     Murphy
     Murray
     Paul
     Perdue
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Roberts
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden

                                NAYS--17

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Braun
     Cruz
     Daines
     Grassley
     Hawley
     Inhofe
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Sasse
     Shelby
     Toomey
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--1

       
     Murkowski
       
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 82, the nays are 
17.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The Senator from Wyoming.
  Mr. BARRASSO. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
remaining votes in this series be 10 minutes in length.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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